>>> 18th Feb 2006, Saturday
In the morning, I met up with feng to zap somethings. Really paiseh to trouble her to come down and accompany go zap things.
After feng went home, i went to meet my sis and mum for breakfast. We went to Shop 'n' Save and i drew out the shopping list for my Chalet.

Went to TM to watch <<小孩不笨2>> with Kev.
It is quite touching at many parts of the whole show, and also a lot of Singaporean-humour sense in it.

Actually, everyone noes what should be the way and wat shdn't be the way. But in reality, where the envt is giving u so much pressure, can u really do wat u wanna do?Do u think ur parents really wanna force u to study? They noe tt studying, esp for the sake for examz, can be a real headache, too!

But there's one thing tt's quite right. Singaporeans are kinda "stingy" about praising others. I am one of them, too. I love to suan ppl since sec sch. It seems to be my way of communication. When I suan u, tt's mean u are my good friend. If i dunno the person well, i won't dare to suan him/her. Coz i am afraid tt i would offend others. But most of the time, words juz come out of my mouth before i am able to think 1st. Kinda too candid sometimes, hope u all dun mind me...
Coming back to the praising part, i will try my best. But i felt tt praise usually sound very bootlicking, haha... I would only praise when i really feel tt way.

Maybe i cut down on my praising due to poor responses...
Recalling when i was doing sales. I praised a few customers, and those words really came from my heart, yet they felt tt i was juz trying to puch sales and went off, feeling a bit... disgusted or something. I wanna tell them, "hey, i dun earn commissions ok??? Dun think every sales promoters are cunning lor..."

Actually, even some customers from other countries dun like praises too, esp from sales promoter. Perhap, ppl nowadays think too much. A praise may seem to have too many meaning for them and it's a cautious move whether to accept or not. And getting such unwelcome responses too many times will discourage ppl to praise.. It's like what the Orgn'l Beh' Reinforcement Theory says - Behavior of ppl will adjust according to the consequences from tt act.

After shopping for a while, I went back to Ubi to have dinner with my family. My dad's treat, he spent all his earnings from last nite's taxi driving. But he was very happy.
Almost quarrelled with my brother on a very trivial thing over the dinner table... Actually i think my tone was a bit harsh juz now lah... and we got a bit of generation gap, so comm cocked up *bleah* But i shut up to stop the quarrel, dun wanna upset my parents and spoil their mood for eating 鱼头炉.